It's worth studying @FBI Director Wray's comments today, and how he views national security & counterintelligence threats. He seems to be an old-school guy who prefers to move slowly and under the radar. Too slowly for most of us, but headed in the right direction.

@FBI Wray on #EconomicEspionage: "We’re seeing what we call a 'blended threat' where cyber crime & espionage merge together in all kinds of new ways. We still confront traditional espionage threats, but economic espionage dominates our counterintelligence program."

@FBI Wray has a lot to say about #China: "No country poses a broader, more severe intelligence collection threat than China. China has pioneered a societal approach to stealing innovation in any way it can, from a wide array of businesses, universities, & organizations."

@FBI Euphemism for US politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers? Wray: "They’re doing it through Chinese intelligence services, through state-owned enterprises, through ostensibly private companies, through students & researchers, & through a variety of actors working on behalf of #China."

@FBI Wray on #China: "Overlaying all these threats is our ever-expending use of technology: next-generation telecommunication networks, like 5G, the rise of AI and machine learning, cryptocurrencies, unmanned aerial systems, & deep fakes."

@FBI FBI Director Wray on #China's strategic threat: "Taken together, these are generational threats that will shape our nation’s future. They’ll shape the world around us. They’ll determine where we stand and what we look like 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 50 years from now."

@FBI Troubling that @FBI Director Wray didn't speak about #Russia's subversion and aggressive espionage against us. Maybe we can ask him at a future venue.

I wonder how many Chinese opposition figures here are fake opponents of the regime, sent here to cause dissension and make trouble for those who fought communism all their lives. I’d walk miles to learn the answer. #China

1) #GregoryCraig was Obama's White House Counsel. He was recently indicted for crimes relating to his Ukraine work with #PaulManafort. Now is a good time to look at Craig's career after he helped would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley get off on an insanity plea.

2) After defending Hinckley, #GregoryCraig was Senator Ted #Kennedy's top foreign policy, defense, & national security advisor from 1984-88. Kennedy, who not been notably active on these issues before, suddenly made defense & national security his top issues.

3) Since the late 1970s, Senator #Kennedy had courted the Soviet #KGB for favors, via a cutout, former senator John Tunney (D-CA), and an Soviet agent David Karr. Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats wrote about this in her book, The State Within A State. amazon.com/State-Within-R…

This is the same #JamesClapper who, as @DIA director, protected Ana Belen Montes because he liked her progressive pro-Castro views. His bias was so unprofessional that he effectively protected Montes from being investigated as a Cuban spy.

.#JamesClapper also purged the @DIA of its finest and most hawkish intelligence officers who focused on Russia, while Russia was restarting a massive strategic nuclear military upgrade. Clapper’s DIA conduct could use some fresh sunlight. @VicToensing@BarbaraLedeen#ObamaKnew

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#HappeningNow: #FBI Director Wray speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations about national security, the threat posed by China, and the need for strong partnerships across many sectors. @CFR_orgow.ly/BJWC50sfEXa

Director Wray: Threats we face today are too diverse, too dangerous, & too all-encompassing for any of us to tackle alone. As #FBI Director, I can see firsthand the incredible strides we’ve made toward keeping people safe from all kinds of harm, & from a wide array of bad guys.

Director Wray: 9/11 was a game-changer in so many terrible ways – not just for the U.S. & our own national security apparatus, but for the whole world. Those attacks blew apart any notion of separation between foreign & domestic threats.

Director Wray: As evidenced by this investigation, the threats we face have never been more pervasive or more potentially damaging to our national security. No country poses a broader, more severe, & long-term threat to our nation’s economy & cyber infrastructure than China.

Director Wray: China’s goal, simply put, is to replace the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower – and they’re using illegal methods to get there.

@HQNigerianArmy 1. None to the exclusion of the other, the operations are as intensely dogged by issues which stem from the human factor ( MANPOWER) as they are majorly constrained by issues of logistics and ewuipment (MATERIEL)

@HQNigerianArmy We shall xray the storied human factor subsequently but let us begin from the area of materiel where we shall be making some revelations that are as in-depth as they are unprecedented...never been broached with such specificty